Lyman Beecher Brooks

Famous quotes containing the words lyman, beecher and/or brooks:

    Isn’t it strange some people make
    You feel so tired inside,
    Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
    Like leaves all brown and dried!
    —Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942)

    The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    I have eased
    My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)